Backed by vocals from friend (and singer in her own right) Emmy the Great and some Postal-Service-style disruption, think somebody who’s just brought a new synthesizer trying out all the available programmes simultaneously, ‘I Believe In The Way That You Move’ jerks between melody and mayhem.

During working on the single, Warmsley was concerned that the electronica-based background dominated the folky foreground too much. Reassuringly, he’s managed to make himself heard over a backing track that’s busier than Clapham Junction. Established as a firm favourite with listeners of 6 Music, ‘IBITWTYM’ can only broaden Jeremy’s fan base.

An unfledged Warmsley has already released an album, last year’s Jan 1976. Garnering decidedly mixed reviews, Jeremy’s ripped his songbook to shreds and started again - refusing to countenance playing any of his old tracks and deleting them from his website. Whilst his old sound pastiched the Beatles, a friend lent him a Fab Four chord book when he first started to play guitar, his newer noise is more XTC having a sonic set-to with Aphex Twin.

Away from performing and recording as a solo artist, although he has recently hired a support band, Warmsley has remixed Transgressive label mates The Mighty Jets and Fierce Panda’s Battle. He’s also produced the debut EP of Simon Mastrantone, the guy he set up the acclaimed Songs In The Dark nights with when they both lived in Cambridge. JW describes Mastrantone as "a cross between Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, and children crying, all his songs are about sex, death, his family, and haunted houses."

It’s plain to see, after listening to him, that Jeremy Warmsley is as individualistic a talent as Si M, another to provide backing vocals along with Blaine Harrison and Mary Bowers. He’s also the most exciting Anglo-French union since classic Gallic crooner Serge Gainsbourg teamed up with budding chanteuse Jane Birkin in 1969. Lyrically interesting, "Is it worse to smile falsely or to frown?" Jeremy questions at one point, he marries style to such substance. Vive Jeremy Warmsley.
(3¾/5)

Release Date: 04 June 2005